Invisible Cloaks and Functional Thinking

To make an image invisible, they much use a sequence of lenses to bend the light around a given object. In this way they need to think of the path for light as a function of the position of each lens.

http://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/watch-rochester-cloak-uses-ordinary-lenses-to-hide-objects-across-continuous-range-of-angles-70592/

Do all the Ants Weigh as Much as All the Humans?

Great article for scientific notation:

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29281253

Steven Strogatz on Scientific Notation

Great Article: http://nyti.ms/1cWQ9CL

Nametags can be a great first day activity

http://purpleprontopups.wordpress.com/2013/08/07/day-one/

The Distance to Mars

Great for a lesson on scale and perhaps time, distance and speed (linear modeling):

http://www.distancetomars.com/

Great source for Scientific Notation measurements

This site has an extensive list of measurements in scientific notation.

Thought this might help: http://www.falstad.com/scale/

Raw = Great data tool

All I have to say here is wow: http://raw.densitydesign.org/